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5:45 PM ET, October 15, 2013

Top News:

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization — Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and blogger who brought the Guardian the biggest scoop of the decade, is departing the London-based news organization, for a brand new, large-scale, broadly-focused media outlet, he told BuzzFeed Tuesday.

The Smoking Gun:

Arianna Huffington made just $21 million from sale of Huffington Post, new document reveals — HuffPost founder pocketed “only” $21 million from web site sale — In a new court filing, lawyers for two men suing Arianna Huffington for allegedly denying them credit and cash for their role …

Discussion: Gawker, FishbowlNY, Poynter, Deadline.com, @drudge_report, @romenesko, JIMROMENESKO.COM and New York Magazine

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Quarter — Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings today. — The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34 cents …

Discussion: The Wrap, Forbes, VentureBeat, Hollywood Reporter, bizjournals, Mercury News, ZDNet, Reuters and @pkafka

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business — Company's Tech Site Out-Traffics TechCrunch, Wired, Engadget — Vox Media may only have three sites to its name — The Verge, SB Nation and Polygon — but that hasn't stopped the D.C.-based company from stuffing its pockets.

Discussion: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, @jorilallo, @reckless, @hblodget, GigaOM, @jeffjohnroberts, Fortune, @agolis, @justinnxt, @mattbuchanan and @pkafka

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Why Accel Is Leading A $40M Round In Vox Media, A Digital Content Company (!) — “At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners' Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in Vox Media, the publisher of hundreds of major league sports fan blogs …

Discussion: @markos, @reckless and Digital Media Wire

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

The International New York Times debuts — The first edition of The International New York Times appeared Tuesday. It replaces the International Herald Tribune. In a letter to readers on the front page, Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. says his father “had the vision to make The Times a national newspaper in 1980.”

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, New York Times, Forbes, Associated Press and @poynter

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘IHT’ publisher gets a promotion as ‘International New York Times’ debuts

Discussion: Poynter, @joepompeo and FRANCE 24

Casey Newton / The Verge:

This just in: why news is Twitter's next frontier — A new ‘experiment’ and a high-profile hire suggest big plans — Twitter is moving more aggressively into the world of journalism, building a new alert system for breaking news and hiring someone to build new partnerships with the media industry.

Discussion: @mcproulx

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

YouTube Partner: We Are ‘Not Happy’ With Money From Subscription Channels — Alchemy Networks CEO Peter Griffith was one of the first media executives to bet YouTube viewers would pay to access certain channels. His company was one of the YouTube's initial partners when it debuted subscription channels …

Martin Belam:

How UsVsTh3m shows the Royal Charter regulation farce is not fit for purpose in the digital age — Well, wouldn't you know, after years of blogging about how press regulation didn't work in the digital era, I find myself having just helped launch the very epitome of why the current proposals are completely unfit for the 21st century.

Discussion: @flashboy and @jimwaterson

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing.com:
All these media organisations won't be covered by the press regulation Royal Charter

Discussion: @joannahiggins, Daily Mail and Guardian

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Harper's Redesigns Its Web Site and Embraces Branded Content — HARPER'S Bazaar is joining the growing list of media properties whose publishers are supplementing more traditional forms of advertising with sponsored content. — The magazine, which is owned by Hearst …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @careyathearst, @hearstcorp, @dmaunited and Canadian Magazines

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

The New Republic Asks Its Reporters To Sell Subscriptions — You hear a lot these days about “Swiss Army knife journalists,” who are expected not just to report, write and edit stories but also to shoot photos and videos, tape podcasts, analyze data sets and write code. — But selling subscriptions?

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

PolicyMic Raises $3M, Betting That Millennials Want Substantive News And Commentary — How many younger readers really care about news and politics — as opposed to celebrity gossip, viral videos, and cat GIFs? Well, a site called PolicyMic is built around the proposition that readers under 35 …

Discussion: @petersterne, @erichippeau, @mattturck, @jacobdhorowitz and @wp

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Politico CEO Jim VandeHei Talks Capital New York Relaunch, Jeff Bezos' WaPo Purchase — Jim VandeHei will bring his 15 years of covering Beltway wheeling and dealing to helping Politico and its new Big Apple bauble Capital New York in its quest to become the dominant force in political journalism.

Discussion: Digiday, Folio, FishbowlDC and Adweek

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Adam Goldman, Pulitzer-Winning Associated Press Reporter, Joins Washington Post — NEW YORK — Adam Goldman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Associated Press, is joining The Washington Post to cover terrorism on the paper's national security team, according to a memo obtained by The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Politico and The New York Observer

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Uri Friedman Named Global Editor of TheAtlantic.com — Uri Friedman is rejoining The Atlantic as global editor of its website, TheAtlantic.com. Friedman comes to The Atlantic from Foreign Policy, where he served as deputy managing editor. Friedman is succeeding Olga Khazan, who is moving into a writing role.

Discussion: FishbowlDC and @natalieraabe

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Netflix, as Easy as Changing the Channel — The television two-step is familiar to nearly every household with a TV set and a Netflix subscription. To watch cable, the television must be on one setting; to browse Netflix, it has to be on another. For some family members …